Garry Trudeau Quotations

I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.

For the most part, editors no longer view 'Doonesbury' as a rolling provocation, which is fine by me. It makes no sense to intentionally antagonize the very people on whose support you most depend.

Coming up with ideas is really hard - they don't spontaneously pop into my head while I'm cutting vegetables.

As far as I'm concerned, there is no subject that's off the table.

There's always been some concern that adult subject matter should be quarantined from a page that attracts children. Unlike late at night, when 'South Park' and 'Colbert' are on, impressionable minds are wide awake when the newspaper arrives.

In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over.

Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.

Comic-strip artists generally have very modest ambitions. Day to day, we labor to fit together all these little moving parts - a character or two, a few lines of dialogue, framing, pacing, payoff - but we certainly don't think of them adding up over time to some larger portrait of our times.

At some point free expression absolutism becomes childish and unserious.

I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.